{"id":57389,"date":"2017-05-15T11:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T18:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/scientists-achieve-direct-counterfactual-quantum-communication-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:01:04","slug":"scientists-achieve-direct-counterfactual-quantum-communication-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/scientists-achieve-direct-counterfactual-quantum-communication-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Achieve Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dOY0NbR1ppw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-teleportation-was-just-achieved-over-7-km-of-cable\">Quantum communication<\/a> is a strange beast, but one of the weirdest proposed forms of it is called counterfactual communication \u2014 a type of quantum communication where no particles travel between two recipients.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretical physicists have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23679694\">long proposed<\/a> that such a form of communication would be possible, but now, for the first time, researchers have been able to experimentally achieve it \u2014 transferring a black and white bitmap image from one location to another without sending any physical particles.<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds a little too out-there for you, don\u2019t worry, this is quantum mechanics, after all. It\u2019s meant to be complicated. But once you break it down, counterfactual quantum communication actually isn\u2019t as bizarre as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-achieved-direct-counterfactual-quantum-communication-for-the-first-time\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-achieved-direct-...first-time<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum communication is a strange beast, but one of the weirdest proposed forms of it is called counterfactual communication \u2014 a type of quantum communication where no particles travel between two recipients. Theoretical physicists have long proposed that such a form of communication would be possible, but now, for the first time, researchers have been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57548,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57389\/revisions\/57548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}